Researchers discovered that the liver hormone FGF21 signals hindbrain neurons to control appetite and metabolism during ...

As a hepatologist, Aleksander Krag has always sought to improve the prognosis of patients with liver disease, whom, he tells The Lancet, he often thinks of as a fictional patient he calls “Henry”. His ...

For decades, physicians and scientists thought metformin, the leading type 2 diabetes medication taken by millions worldwide, mainly targets the liver to suppress glucose production. But a new ...

Researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center provide critical insight into how the brain and body work together to regulate food intake, energy use and metabolism, offering important new ...

An ambitious study has explored how the oral microbiome may affect our metabolic health, raising hopes that conditions like ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that an enzyme in the liver may partly explain sex differences in the body's ...

This disruption has wide-ranging effects. When SIRT1 is suppressed, the liver shifts toward storing fat instead of burning it ...

Tanton, principal investigator of NASA’s Psyche mission, explains in her new book how lessons from interplanetary exploration ...

Following the success of the first volume of this Research Topic, which resulted in 17 published articles, this second edition continues to explore safe and ...